Example sentences of "because [pron] be [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 'm making you a fantastic offer . |
| 2 | ‘ No one 's saying it is , but I 'm in the house because I 'm doing you a favour . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 4 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 5 | Not , not as many as active though , because you could say that stock checks and checks are reactive because you 're doing it every day but , stock checks move the department forward on your stock reports . |
| 6 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 7 | Because it 's giving us a value whether it be a value which |
| 8 | Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total . |